November 19, 2014

The date, along with those of various other development milestones, is listed as part of a draft release schedule on the Ubuntu Wiki page for the ‘V’ update. As of writing all dates are subject to approval from the Ubuntu release team and are therefore not final.

Ubuntu’s previous spring release, 14.04 LTS, went live on April 17, 2014.

As with all releases post-13.04, Ubuntu proper only makes fleeting appearances in select milestone releases, specifically the ‘final beta’ and the ‘release candidate’ stages.

Ubuntu’s family of flavours, which may include Ubuntu MATE this cycle, take full advantage of the testing opportunities at hand.

Alpha 1 – December 18th (for flavours)

Alpha 2 – January 22nd (for flavours)

Feature Freeze — February 19th

Beta 1 – February 28th (for flavours)

UI Freeze — March 12th

Final Beta – March 26th

Kernel Freeze — April 9th

Release Candidate – April 16th

The final release of the Vivid Vervet in all its vivacious glory is pencilled in for release on: